Western Maryland Railway Co. v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp.

This appeal is from a decree overruling a demurrer to1 a bill of complaint on which an order had been passed restraining a settlement between two alleged tort-feasors (two of appellants) and an injured workman (a third appellant) to whom the plaintiff (appellee) had, as insurer, paid compensation.

The bill alleged that one of the appellants, Joseph W. Wright, in the course of his employment by R. C. Heller Company, Inc., was injured in June, 1929, and, as the insurer of the employer, the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Limited, appellee, to December 5th, 1931, paid the said Joseph…